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THE SYSTEMS OF INDIAN PHILOSOPHY
Shri Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Bharatiya Sanskriti Vidyamandir, Ahmedabad. made our task very easy. Vidyamandir allotted the work of editing the lectures to Dr. K. K. Dixit, a scholar of many subjects and especially of philosophy. Dr. Dixit has taken great pains in carrying out the work successfully. We express our gratitude to the management of Vidyamandir for extending active cooperation. And we heartily thank Dr Dixit for critically editing these lectures and for writing an elaborate thought-provoking introduction to present work.
The evaluation of the present work and its author has been made by Dr. Dixit in his impartial and scholarly introduction as also by Dr. Pt. Sukhlalji in his "Something About Late Shri V. R. Gandhi'. And they are experts in this field. Hence it is in the fitness of things if we say nothing about it. We are very grateful to Pt. Sukhlalji for the love he displayed towards our Institution by writing a useful prefatory note under the title 'Something About Late Shri V. R. Gandhi'. We know that one of the factors that inspired him to write it, is his admiration for Shri V. R. Gandhi's academic activities. The original Gujarati of this English note is included in this work in order that the reader can have the benefit of reading Panditji's thoughts in his own words.
The late Shri Umedchand Dolatchand Barodia, a close associate of Shri Mahavira Jaina Vidyalaya for over 40 years, had assigned to the Institution his endowment paid-up insurance policy of Rs. 2,000/- in 1963 with a request to utilize the amount when realized for publications activities, as may be suggested by his two sons, Shri Shantibhai and Shri Kantibhai. On his death three years later, the two devoted sons who are past students of this Institution suggested that the insurance money may be utilized in the publication of the present book, whose author, Shri V. R. Gandhi was held in high esteem by their father as an outstanding representaiive
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